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Title: Professional NT Services by Kevin Miller ISBN: 1-86100-130-4 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 10 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent coverage of most of the important issues
Comment: This book is a excellent explanation of the important technologies involved in writing services for NT. The writing is clear, and understandable. The treatment is complete, and, surprisingly, not overly verbose or redundant (as is often the case with books of this type). This is an wonderful book for beginning service writers as well as experts. Beginners will appreciate the clear writing and logical pace. Experts will apperciate the complete coverage and apt organization. Reading just the chapters you are interested in is quite easy. Later chapters do not make unnecessary assumptions to previous examples or specific material earlier in the book, making this a useful reference.
Rating: 5
Summary: This one is really good.
Comment: It's hard to find someone these days who works with NT and is entirely unaware of NT services. There have been books treating the topic, there's some info and samples on MSDN, mag articles, and so on. Nevertheless, there have been two problems with all of it. First, all sources were treating services very narrowly, within a limited API-programming scope, and second--it was all over the place. This book imo successfully addresses both of these problems. It is most of what anyone would ever need on the topic, collected all in one place. Better yet, the author extends the coverage into lateral areas, from both the business and technological viewpoints. There's quite a bit on security, event-logging, COM and NT services interaction, MS message queue programming, ATL, debugging, profiling, and more. Quite a bit of that is useful even in its own right--services or not. You end up learning some, picking some suggestions, stealing code snippets from here and there... The book increases one's comfort not only with "hows" but also with "whys" of NT service programming. This may be the best book of the kind I've read lately.
Which is not to say that it's perfect. Some passages, especially at the beginning, are somewhat unreadable. For some reason, "role" is repeatedly spelled with the French accent... There's been a few rather touching cases of split infinitives-evasion that resulted in what J.K. Galbraith once called "fine examples of fiduciary prose" that "the conoisseurs will want to read backward as well as forward." But not much of it! Not much at all... While on a few occasions the author did start to slide into OO crypto-shamanism--there's a few "patterns" and "semantics" here and there--he clearly managed to regain control of himself--the patterns theme is used reasonably, and not in an altogether inappropriate context. What else? In a few places "persist" was used as a transitive verb, which is annoying. Anyway, that's nit-picking. Let's concentrate on positives: there wasn't a single "refactoring" in all of the book! Not a single "cool" either. The words "remote" and "migrate" weren't used as transitive verbs--a feat unheard of in the realm of MS stuff-related tech writing. In fact, "remote" wasn't even used as a verb at all. I repeat, this book is the cleanest of the ones I've seen lately. A word about Wrox: While many formerly-trustworthy publishers, like AW, have obviously given in to the temptation and engaged in large-scale consumer fraud by throwing oodles of nonsense, pseudo-scientific OO-puffery at the reader, Wrox seems to be quietly establishing itself on the level with O'Reilly. Good for them. Thanks to the author and the publisher.
Rating: 4
Summary: Chapter 5 - Event Log Class
Comment: Mr. Miller wrote a handy class for event logging called CEventLog, but he chose to use overloaded names for the methods to handle all sorts of different types of events. If I were you, I would NOT do this.
Instead:
I would give each LogEvent() method in that class an explicit name, because it makes it more clear which method will be invoked. In my particular case, I sort of assumed his class was good until I noticed that a bunch of my custom messages weren't printing to the event log. Because it was 2:00 AM when I found this, it took me a long time to figure out the problem.
Anyway, the rest of the book is pretty great, a must-have if you're going to be writing a service.
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Title: Professional Atl Com Programm Ing by Richard Grimes ISBN: 1861001401 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book: A Guide for Programmers (2nd Edition) by Art Baker, Jerry Lozano ISBN: 0130204315 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 20 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Windows Services Handbook by Brian Patterson, William Sempf, Richard Conway, Robin Dewson ISBN: 1861007728 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Developing Applications with Visual Studio .NET by Richard Grimes ISBN: 0201708523 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 11 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Essential COM by Don Box ISBN: 0201634465 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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